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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Francis P. Rous

Title:

Member Emeritus

Affiliation:

Rockefeller University

New York,New York  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1970

Award Discipline:

Biological Sciences

Award Year:

1965

Citation:

"For the original discovery and continued elaboration of the relationship between viruses and tumors, which has come to form the biologic base for so much of our present research effort on cancer."

Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 10, 1966.

 

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